Survival in Auschwitz

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Translated from Se quesio è un uomo copyright © 1958 by Giulio Einaudi editore S.pA. copyright © by The Orion Press

“A Conversation with Primo Levi by Philip Roth” copyright © 1986 Philip Roth

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Survival in Auschwitz originally appeared in English under the title If This Is a Man.

First Collier Books Trade Edition 1993

First Touchstone Edition 1996

Manufactured in the United States of America

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Levi, Primo.

[Se questo è un uomo. English]

Survival in Auschwitz: the Nazi assault on humanity/Primo Levi; translated from the Italian by Stuart Woolf.

p. cm.

Translation of: Se questo è un uomo.

Originally published: If this is a man.

1. Levi, Primo. 2. Auschwitz (Poland: Concentration camp). 3. World War, 1939-1945—Prisoners and prisons, German. 4. World War, 1939-1945—Personal narratives, Italian. 3. Prisoners of war—Italy—Biography. 6. Prisoners of war— Poland—Biography. I. Levi, Primo. If this is a man. II. Title. III. Title: Se questo è un uomo. English. D805.P7L44I3 1993U

940.5472‘43094386—dcl9 86-13656 CIP

ISBN-13: 978-0-684-82680-6

ISBN-10: 0-684-82680-1